弊社USA現地法人から、ILWUのOCU Workersの労使交渉状況の続報を入手しておりますので、
お客様各位に開示させて頂きます。
OCU Workersは、現状労使間の協約が失効した状態ですが、ストライキには至っていないとの
ことです。
なお、ストライキにはいる可能性については、7月6日以前にストに入る可能性がゼロではなく、
OCU Workersがピケを張る場合、港湾労働者も協力することになり、港湾での荷役作業等に影響
が出る可能性もあるかもしれないとのことです
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Contract expired, ILWU clerks continue working
The contract for hundreds of office clerical workers at steamship
lines and marine terminal
operators in Southern California (schedules) expired at midnight
Wednesday, but workers
remained on the job Thursday.
Negotiations between International Longshore and Warehouse Union
Local 63's Office
Clerical Unit and 16 shipping lines and terminal operators continued until 6 a.m. Thursday.
The talks were recessed an d were scheduled to resume Thursday afternoon.
The situation can be explosive because the ILWU office clerical workers
could call a strike
if their demands are not met. If they do, ILWU dockworkers would most certainly honor the
picket lines and the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex would be
shut down, subject
to an employer challenge before a local arbitrator.
The three main issues in the negotiations are wages, benefits and job security, said John
Fageaux, president of the office clerical unit of ILWU Local 63.
Negotiators on Wednesday made considerable progress on the health
and welfare benefits,
Fageaux said. "The union is pleased with that," he said. Negotiators made "no movement"
on wages, he said. Job security and scope of work could be a divisive
issue. Employers in
the 2002 general longshore contract made significant gains in their
ability to introduce
information technology at marine terminals. That technology will have a direct impact on
some of the documentation work performed by office clerical workers.
The office clerical unit represents a variety of office workers at
shipping lines and terminal
operators, from telephone receptionists and secretaries to certain documentation clerks.
As with the general longshore contract negotiations, the potential
replacement of workers
by computers is an important issue.
Some issues in the negotiations apply to all 16 of the shipping lines and terminal operators,
but each employer has its own contract with the ILWU Local 63 clerical
unit with issues
unique to each contract.
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